Prairie High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Harper return a good one for Prairie

Prairie junior Demetrius Harper, playing his first game after breaking his collarbone Sept. 2, returned a kickoff 88 yards for a touchdown with less than two minutes left in a tie game and lifted the Hawks past Dubuque Hempstead, 35-28, Friday night in a Mississippi Valley Conference football game at John Wall Field.

“We just got him (Harper) back this week from a collarbone injury, he has been itching all week to get out there,” Prairie Coach Mike Morrissey said. “He took advantage of what his 10 teammates on the field did. They really set him up well.”

Prairie (2-4, 2-6) posted its second win in as many weeks and all but ended Hempstead's playoff hopes. The Hawks still entertain an outside chance of making the playoffs, but need to beat No. 3 Iowa City High in their finale next Friday at Iowa City.

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Aune wins Valley Division cross country title

Prairie senior Jacob Aune was the winner Thursday in the Mississippi Valley Conference Valley Division boys cross country meet at Prairie.

Aune ran the 5k course in 16 minutes, 22.4 seconds. He beat Calvin Daack from Dubuque Hempstead by 2.7 seconds.

Cedar Falls won the team title with 36 points. Iowa City West was second with 46 and Prairie was third with 72. Xavier was fifth and Jefferson sixth.

Prairie's Mitch Pritts finished eighth and the Hawks' Isaiah Vlasek was 14th.

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Prairie wins Consolation Bowl with Jefferson

Mike Morrissey got drenched with a bucket of water in honor of his first victory at Cedar Rapids Prairie Friday night.

It happened in the final seconds of a 29-17 triumph over Cedar Rapids Jefferson on homecoming at John Wall Field.

"That was a lot of fun," Morrissey said after the impromptu bath, which took him by surprise.

The celebration was dampened, however, by the sight of Prairie quarterback Jace Hanna being loaded into an ambulance and taken to Mercy Hospital with an apparent back injury in the fourth quarter.

"It would be nice to have him here celebrating with us. He's earned it," Morrissey said. "He's been a tough, tough kid all season long, with some of the beatings he's taken at times.

"He's a great young man and we'll make sure we get to see him here tonight."

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Prairie girls 2nd at West Delaware Invite

MANCHESTER - Bree Gaster finished third overall to lead Prairie to a second-place finish Tuesday at the West Delaware Invitational girls cross country meet.

Western Dubuque won the meet with 57 points. Prairie had 67 and Mount Vernon-Lisbon was third with 70.

Marion finished 10th with 232 points.

Western Dubuque's Dakota Tell was the individual winner, running the 4k course in 15 minutes, 13 seconds. Arden Betzer of Springville-Central City was second in 15:27 and Gaster was third in 15:38.

Amanda Weyer, Beth Heims and Maddie Rainey all recorded top 20 finishes for Prairie.

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